Tractable Definition

trăktə-bəl
adjective
Easily managed, taught, or controlled; docile; compliant.
Webster's New World
Easily worked; malleable.
Webster's New World

(mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.

Wiktionary

(computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.

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Origin of Tractable

  • From Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed"), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage"), frequentative of trahō (“draw").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin tractābilis from tractāre to manage frequentative of trahere to draw

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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